Quoted: Quoted: Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Craddle" I would agree.

Yep, that song gets me every time.

Still by Lionel Ritchie.

Lady, Morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again
You laughed at me
You said you never needed me
I wonder if you need me now

Chorus:

So many dreams that flew away
So many words we didn't say
Two people lost in a storm
Where did we go?
Where'd we go?

We lost what we both had found
You know we let each other down
But then most of all
I Do Love You
Still!

(chorus)

We played the games that people play
We made our mistakes along the way
Somehow I know deep in my heart
You needed me
'Cause I needed you so desperatly!
We were too blind to see
But then most of all
I Do Love You
Still!

Quoted: My depressing day mix: Dido- Here With Me Linkin Park - My December Blink 182 - Stay Together for the Kids 3 Doors Down - Loser Radiohead - Karma Police Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Lifehouse - Simon Live - Lightning Crashes Oasis - Wonderwall Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life Ben Folds Five - Brick The Verve - The Freshman Third Eye Blind - How's It Gonna Be? Green Day - Macy's Day Parade Fuel - Shimmer Moby - Porcelain

Do you have a digital version of this?  Can you send it to me?  This is totally MY depressing day list.

Gotta agree with one just mentioned.  
"Brick" by Ben Folds Five is an incredibly depressing song recounting what happened when the singer's girlfriend got pregnant and decided to have an abortion.  Very sad song and a very evenhanded account of what an abortion means.

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut(Half the songs on this album are depressing)
Pretty much any "my dying bride" album(metal band)
The Beatles - My Life(not really depressing in itself but they played it for my fathers funeral so I think of that if I hear that song.)

Sara Beth-Rascal Flatts
Whisky Lullaby-Brad Paisly and Allison Krauss
The dance  w/ video -Garth Brooks
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

The End by Pink Floyd. Albeit it's only 30 seconds long but makes you want to off yourself.

Bruce Springsteen USED to be good.

Nebraska is dark dark dark

The River is only half dark...


Independence Day:

Its just that there's different people coming down here now

And they see things in different ways

And soon everything we know

Will just be swept away


Lots of depressing stuff in that album. Great stuff.

Romeo and Juliet----Dire Straits

A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade
Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it ?

Juliet says hey it’s romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack
He’s underneath the window she’s singing hey la my boyfriend’s back
You shouldn’t come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it ?

Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget the movie song
When you wanna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

Come up on differents streets they both were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals ?

Where you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me think and thin
Now you just says oh romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die
There’s a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

I can’t do the talk like they talk on tv
And I can’t do a love song like the way it’s meant to be
I can’t do everything but I’d do anything for you
I can’t do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Julie I’d do the stars with you any time

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die
There’s a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade
Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it ?

Most depressing Dire Straits song: Telegraph Road

A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river. . .

And my radio says tonight it’s gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There’s six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow. . .

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go to work but there’s no work here to be found
Yes and they say we’re gonna have to pay what’s owed
We’re gonna have to reap from some seed that’s been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road

You know I’d sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you don’t seem to care
But believe in me baby and I’ll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
’cos I’ve run every red light on memory lane
I’ve seen desperation explode into flames
And I don’t want to see it again. . .
from all of these signs saying sorry but we’re closed
All the way down the telegraph road

Dream On, by Nazareth. Utterly depressing. Keep sharp instruments, firearms, and lengths of rope out of reach when you listen to it.

ALICE IN CHAINS - NUTSHELL

ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING SINGING AND SONGWRITING. RIP LAYNE STALEY

Kansas - Dust in the Wind

Bruce Springsteen- Wreck on the Highway

Last night I was out driving
Coming home at the end of the working day
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
When I came upon a wreck on the highway

There was blood and glass all over
And there was nobody there but me
As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
He cried Mister, won't you help me please

An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

Scorpions - Winds of Change

I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change

The world closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close,like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change

Chorus:
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

Walking down the street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever

I fallow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

The wind of change blows straight
Into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring
The freedom bell for peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing
What my guitar wants to say

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

Please Daddy - Dwight Yoakam

Pantera:  Cemetary Gates
                Hollow

Eric Clapton:  Tears in Heaven

DRIVE-BY THE CARS
Who's gonna tell you when
It's too late
Who's gonna tell you things
Aren't so great
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna pick you up
When you fall
Who's gonna hang it up
When you call
Who's gonna pay attention
To your dreams
Who's gonna plug their ears
When you scream

You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna hold you down
When you shake
Who's gonna come around
When you break

You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Quoted: Quoted: <snip> Do you have a digital version of this?  Can you send it to me?  This is totally MY depressing day list.

No, but I could burn you a copy if you like.

Rush-The Pass
Dan Fogelburg-Same Old Lang Syne

Lightning Crashes - Live
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
How do you get that lonely - Blaine Larsen; Sad to begin with, and it hits home. Just sad as hell.
Monday Morning Church - Alan Jackson
Id be better off in a pine box - Doug Stone
Hurt - Cash cover. (Actually the video. Its like saying goodbye to a fatherfigure who not only know he is going to die soon, but is looking forward to shaking the Lords hand. ) RIP, John.

Quoted: I am depressed most of the time, so for me they are not "depressing songs". They are just "songs".

Geez, +1

Still, here's my depression/breakup playlist:
Dam at Otter Creek--Live
Selling the Drama--Live
Full of Grace--Sarah McLachlan
All She Said--Toad the Wet Sprocket
Dirty Day--U2
Something's Always Wrong--Toad the Wet Sprocket
Gloomy Sunday--Sarah McLachlan
Crowing--Toad the Wet Sprocket
How She Cried--Toad the Wet Sprocket
Waiting for the Sun--The Doors
Eyes Open Wide--Toad the Wet Sprocket
So Cruel--U2
Electrical Storm--U2
Walk On By--Cake
Found Out About You--Gin Blossoms
Run to the Water--Live
Whatshername--Green Day

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut    whole album start to finish..


Something i can never have -- NIN

Love is not enough-NIN
Totally describes what I'm going through.

Quoted: Tori Amos "China" "Silent all these years"   <  I Love that album..

Beck - "I'm a loser, baby"

Tex Ritter - "I dreamed I went to Hillbilly Heaven"

The Browns - "Little Jimmy Brown" / "The three bells"

Mark Dinning - "Teen Angel"

??? - "Aragon Mill"

Norman Blake - "Last Train from Poor Valley"

??? (Done by John Prine) - "Paradise"

Ray Stevens -  "Speedball"   & John Prine - "Please Don't Bury Me (just kidding)

SGT. Mackenzie

Written by Joseph Kilna Mackenzie about an actual event in World War 1 where his grandfather SGT. Mackenzie of the British Seaforth Highlanders stayed to defend a wounded friend when there trench was over run by the Germans when the rest of his unit retreated, even though he could have left, both SGT. Mackenzie, and his wounded friend were bayoneted to death by the Germans....

Lay me down in the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone.
Lay me down in the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone.
   
 
When they come, I will stand my ground.
Stand my ground - I'll not be afraid.
Thoughts of home take away my fear.
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears.
   
 
Once a year, say a prayer for me.
Close your eyes and remember me.
No more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a German's gun.
 
 
Lay me down in the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone.
Lay me down in the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone.
Where before many more have gone.
 

Riding With Private Malone

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Hurt

And ofcourse:

Taps

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Pictures of You. Glooups you make think that i have not listed the Cure and their dark trilogy Oh and if you are not affraid by a little bit of cultural diversity you should do as in the soldat Ryan and listen Edith Piaf See. Now you're wondering what the inside of your oven looks like....

yeah thxs for that, really

Quoted: Quoted: if you are looking for a cord: Anything by Joy division but especially love will tear us apart (the singer ian curtis commited suicide 3 month after this one) She's Lost Control by Ian Curtis/Joy Division is a real downer as well. I knew some pretty messed-up people who used to listen to this following song constantly......

Lol last week i have found their compilation heart and soul ( 4 CD)
After the first song i was looking for a cord, at the end of the first album i was looking for a place to attach it .
And i'm not even understanding 1/4 of the lyrics

The cover of Lynyrd Skynyrds Simple Man redone by Shinedown I think.....
They butchered the hell out of that song and I hope their tour bus wrecks and burns with all aboard!!!

Ballad of Jane - LA Guns

He Stopped Loving her Today- George Jones

The Dance - Garth Brooks

Down to the River (?)  - Chris Knight  (Hell most of Chris Knight's songs)

Dan Fogelburg-Same Old Lang Syne

Quoted: Bruce Springsteen USED to be good. Nebraska is dark dark dark The River is only half dark... Independence Day: Its just that there's different people coming down here now And they see things in different ways And soon everything we know Will just be swept away Lots of depressing stuff in that album. Great stuff.

What was that song about the two brothers (one cop one crook) by Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska?

Quoted: Quoted: Bruce Springsteen USED to be good. Nebraska is dark dark dark The River is only half dark... Independence Day: Its just that there's different people coming down here now And they see things in different ways And soon everything we know Will just be swept away Lots of depressing stuff in that album. Great stuff. What was that song about the two brothers (one cop one crook) by Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska?

Cant remember, but the River sure was sad.

"For my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat..."

For overall mood, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has to be the most depressing song to ever hit the airwaves.  The organ adds to the sound of a funeral song.

A lot of people like Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but I find that almost in the same league.

I don't find Live's "Lightning Crashes" depressing.  I find the strength of the vocals and the power of the drumming to be kinda triumphant.  

"The Pass" by Rush is supposed to be an anti-suicide anthem, but the lyrics are pretty sad.  "Christ! What have you done?"

The speed of Pain - Marilyn Manson

Quoted: Quoted: Bruce Springsteen USED to be good. Nebraska is dark dark dark The River is only half dark... Independence Day: Its just that there's different people coming down here now And they see things in different ways And soon everything we know Will just be swept away Lots of depressing stuff in that album. Great stuff. What was that song about the two brothers (one cop one crook) by Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska?

"Highway Patrolman"

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job

Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
Well I must of done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Not gonna read though all the posts but heres a good list of my "newer" depressive rock/songs I listen to during periods of reflection, all is slow rock or layered rock, good for when your feelin down, not sure it will all pick you up however...regardless heres the partial list.

band-title


Cold-Insane, It's all Good, Ugly and Makes Her Sick, No one, end of the world, gone away
Deftones- Lucky you, No Ordinary Love (sade cover), be quite and drive
STP-Creep
RadioHead-Creep
SlipKnot-Vermillion Pt.2
26 weeks-L.U.C.K.I.
Local H- bound for the floor
Soundgarden- Blackhole sun
Stone Sour-BOTHER
M. Manson- Coma White
Taproot- "I", again and again
Dope- with or without you
Staind-Safe Place, Fade
Smashing pumpkins- The killer in you, Crestfallen, To forgive, Here is no why
Silverchair-Ana's song
Seether-Lover Her (acoustic version), Driven Under, Fine again
HeavensDust-Time will Take, Snow
Alice in Chains- Nutshell, Would
Team Sleep- Death By Plane
Cinder- She Said
Burn Season- Monday
CARB. - YOU (live)
Eisley- Telescope Eyes
Nothingface- Ether
RA- Walking and thinking
A Perfect Circle- The Noose, Blue, hollow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps
Nonpoint- Mint,  in the air tonight (cover)
311- Love Song
In Flames- Metaphor
Flaw- Best I am, My letter, Out of Wack, turn the tables
Soil- Unreal
Weezer- Say it aint so


If anyone needs them, or where to get them, message or email me, I should be able to hook you up.

Here's a few off the top of my head:

You're Beautiful - James Blunt
It's A Dream - Neil Young
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Don't Go Away - Oasis
Man Of The Hour - Pearl Jam
Foolish Games - Jewel
Happens All The Time - Cold
Rest In Pieces - Saliva
Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard Confessional
Don't Follow - Alice In Chains
November Rain - Guns and Roses
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise, Bye June, In The Arms of Sleep
Seven Mary Three - Lucky
Robbie Williams - She's The One
Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
Nirvana - All Apologies
Mazzy Starr - Bells Ring, Fade In To You (more sleepy than depressing)
Mark Willis - Almost Doesn't Count
Liz Phair - F*ck and Run
KC and Jojo - Crazy, It's Real, How Could You
Jayhawks -Blue
Hootie and The Blowfish - Time, Let Her Cry, Tootie, Only Lonely, Solitude
Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway, Here Is Gone
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Chris Isaak - Let Me Down Easy, Things Go Wrong
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Bush - Glycerine
Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain
Social Distortion - Ball and Chain, Let it Be Me, Making Believe, So Far Away
Sheryl Crow / Kid Rock - Picture
Temple of The Dog - Hunger Strike
Hoobastank - The Reason
Morrisey - Everyday Is Like Sunday

And The List Goes On and On

what a happy bunch we are

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I disagree with Enya's "Only Time" as being depressing.

The whole point of the song is about hope. That only time can reveal what will happen. I think it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Lyrics:

Who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows? Only time... And who can say if your love grows, As your heart chose? Only time... (chants) Who can say why your heart sighs, As your love flies? Only time... And who can say why your heart cries, When your love dies? Only time... (chants) Who can say when the roads meet, That love might be, In your heart. And who can say when the day sleeps, The moon still keeps on moving If the night keeps all your heart? Night keeps all your heart... (extended chants) Who can say if your love grows, As your heart chose? Only time... And who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows? Only time... Who knows? Only time... Who knows? Only time...

Now, for depressing, how about Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)"

In a little while from now, If I'm not feeling any less sour I promised myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower, And climbing to the top, Will throw myself off In an effort to make it clear to who Ever what it's like when your shattered Left standing in the lurch, at a church Where people 're saying, "My God that's tough, she stood him up! No point in us remaining. May as well go home." As I did on my own, Alone again, naturally To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay, Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do, The role I was about to play But as if to knock me down, Reality came around And without so much as a mere touch, Cut me into little pieces Leaving me to doubt, All about God and His mercy For if He really does exist Why did He desert me In my hour of need? I truly am indeed, Alone again, naturally It seems to me that There are more hearts Broken in the world That can't be mended Left unattended What do we do? What do we do? (instrumental break) Now looking back over the years, And what ever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to have cried the tears And at sixty-five years old, My mother, God rest her soul, Couldn't understand, why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start with a heart So badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally Alone again, naturally

Or, Suzanne Vega's "Luka"? Did you know it was about child abuse from the victim's perspective?

My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes I think you've seen me before If you hear something late at night Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight Just don't ask me what it was Just don't ask me what it was Just don't ask me what it was I think it's because I'm clumsy I try not to talk too loud Maybe it's because I'm crazy I try not to act too proud They only hit until you cry And after that you don't ask why You just don't argue anymore You just don't argue anymore You just don't argue anymore Yes I think I'm okay I walked into the door again Well, if you ask that's what I'll say And it's not your business anyway I guess I'd like to be alone With nothing broken, nothing thrown Just don't ask me how I am [X3]

Can't you See  - Marshall Tucker Band
Sunday Morning Coming Dwon  -  Kris Kristoferson
One Tin Soldier  - Coven
Burning Bridges  - Mike Curb Congregation
Early Mornin' Rain  - Gordon Lightfoot
LOVIN’ HER WAS EASIER  - Kris Kristoferson
The Weight  - The Band

Rare Ould Times  - Irish Drinking Ballad
Wind That Shakes the Barley  - Irish Drinking Ballad

Desolation Row  - Bob Dylan
Eve of Destruction  - Bob Dylan

My mom died 22 years ago, and starnge as it seems, I can't listen to "Will the Circle be Unbroken  without breaking out in tears......

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bruce Springsteen USED to be good. Nebraska is dark dark dark The River is only half dark... Independence Day: Its just that there's different people coming down here now And they see things in different ways And soon everything we know Will just be swept away Lots of depressing stuff in that album. Great stuff. What was that song about the two brothers (one cop one crook) by Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska? "Highway Patrolman" My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8 I always done an honest job as honest as I could I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank, they said Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights Well I must of done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Thanks much.

I would like to add:

Long Black Vail - Chieftians, Lefty Farzelle (sp), Greatful Dead, Johny Cash

Quoted: Adam's Song - Blink 182 .

Yea.. Thats another one.......


I never thought I'd,
I'd die alone
I laughed the loudest, who'd have known?
I traced the cord back to the wall
No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time,
I hurried up
The choice was mine, I didn't think enough
I'm too depressed, To go on
You'll be sorry when I'm gone

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never thought I'd die alone
Another six months I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again

You'll close it off,You'll board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice in the hall
Please tell mom this is not her fault

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I cant wait to get outside
The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I survived
I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone

Here comes the bride

Taxi by Harry Chapin

It was raining hard in 'Frisco,
I needed one more fare to make my night.
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down,
She got in at the light.

Oh, where you going to, my lady blue,
It's a shame you ruined your gown in the rain.
She just looked out the window, and said
"Sixteen Parkside Lane".

Something about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen her face before,
But she said, "I'm sure you're mistaken"
And she didn't say anything more.

It took a while, but she looked in the mirror,
And she glanced at the license for my name.
A smile seemed to come to her slowly,
It was a sad smile, just the same.
And she said, "How are you Harry?"
I said, "How are you Sue?
Through the too many miles
and the too little smiles
I still remember you."

It was somewhere in a fairy tale,
I used to take her home in my car.
We learned about love in the back of the Dodge,
The lesson hadn't gone too far.
You see, she was gonna be an actress,
And I was gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the footlights,
And I took off to find the sky.

Oh, I've got something inside me,
To drive a princess blind.
There's a wild man, wizard,
He's hiding in me, illuminating my mind.
Oh, I've got something inside me,
Not what my life's about,
Cause I've been letting my outside tide me,
Over 'till my time, runs out.

Baby's so high that she's skying,
Yes she's flying, afraid to fall.
I'll tell you why baby's crying,
Cause she's dying, aren't we all.

There was not much more for us to talk about,
Whatever we had once was gone.
So I turned my cab into the driveway,
Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns.
And she said we must get together,
But I knew it'd never be arranged.
And she handed me twenty dollars,
For a two fifty fare, she said
"Harry, keep the change."
Well another man might have been angry,
And another man might have been hurt,
But another man never would have let her go...
I stashed the bill in my shirt.

And she walked away in silence,
It's strange, how you never know,
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for,
Such a long, long time ago.

You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the footlights,
And I took off for the sky.
And here, she's acting happy,
Inside her handsome home.
And me, I'm flying in my taxi,
Taking tips, and getting stoned,
I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.




Followed closely by Dan Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne. Nothing like some gloom for the Yuletide season! After hearing this song you'll know why the suicide rate jumps during the holidays.

Quoted: Here comes the bride

 

Same Old Lang Syne
   (Dan Fogelberg)

   Met my old lover in the grocery store,
   The snow was falling Christmas Eve.
   I stole behind her in the frozen foods,
   And I touched her on the sleeve.

   She didn't recognize the face at first,
   But then her eyes flew open wide.
   She went to hug me and she spilled her purse,
   And we laughed until we cried.

   We took her groceries to the checkout stand,
   The food was totalled up and bagged.
   We stood there lost in our embarrassment,
   As the conversation dragged.

   We went to have ourselves a drink or two,
   But couldn't find an open bar.
   We bought a six-pack at the liquor store,
   And we drank it in her car.

   We drank a toast to innocence,
   We drank a toast to now.
   And tried to reach beyond the emptiness,
   But neither one knew how.

   She said she'd married her an architect,
   Who kept her warm and safe and dry,
   She would have liked to say she loved the man,
   But she didn't like to lie.

   I said the years had been a friend to her,
   And that her eyes were still as blue.
   But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I saw,
   Doubt or gratitude.

   She said she saw me in the record stores,
   And that I must be doing well.
   I said the audience was heavenly,
   But the traveling was hell.

   We drank a toast to innocence,
   We drank a toast to now.
   And tried to reach beyond the emptiness,
   But neither one knew how.
   We drank a toast to innocence,
   We drank a toast to time.
   Reliving in our eloquence,
   Another 'auld lang syne'......

   The beer was empty and our tongues were tired,
   And running out of things to say.
   She gave a kiss to me as I got out,
   And I watched her drive away.
   Just for a moment I was back at school,
   And felt that old familiar pain .........
   And as I turned to make my way back home,
   The snow turned into rain ..............

Love Hurts - Emmylou Harris & Graham Parson

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts.

I'm young I know but even so
I know a thing or two I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a stove burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts.

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me
I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts...

You guys must be on crack.  Just give a listen to that poor little girl who saw her mommy kissing Santa Claus under the Christmas tree!  The child is ruined. Christmas is tainted.  I bawl like a baby when I hear that tear-jerker.

say hello to heaven-Temple of the dog
dont follow-Alice in chains

I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star In somebody else’s sky, but why Why, why can’t it be, why can’t it be mine

Black-Pearl Jam